After public back and forth between the city and those hoping to preserve New Orleans history, the PGT Beauregard monument no longer stands at the entrance to City Park.

There was a celebratory second line after after the removal was completed early Wednesday morning. It is the third of the four confederate-era monuments to be taken down over the last month, and only the Robert E. Lee monument at Lee Circle remains.

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Wednesday a city worker was cleaning up spray paint on the former site of the Beauregard monument. NOPD said a father and son from Norco were arrested and charged with criminal damage to historic buildings or landmarks by defacing with graffiti.

There were three other arrests overnight while the monuments were being removed. NOPD said one man charged with assault, and a man and woman charged with public intoxication and setting a trash fire.

People stopped by the traffic circle Wednesday to take pictures of the empty pedestal and see it first hand.

"Relieved and grateful. It feels like a new day a transformation," said Dana Flynn who lives in the 7th Ward. "It's time for a new day. A lot of these 'symbols' are very hurtful and there's a lot of wounds here in the city and it's time to heal."

Connie Traub lives near the City Park monument. She said, "I would have liked if when they took this down that they would have something to put in its place. I walked up this morning and saw the crumbling façade with the brick behind it, it just looks sort of sad."

With two statues gone-- Beauregard in City Park and Jefferson Davis in Mid-City-- and one more to come down, Robert E. Lee in the Central Business District, many question what will replace them.

"This is the best spot in the city for this park and the museum, so is the plan now that visitors coming into New Orleans are going to see these empty pedestals," Charles Marsala said.

When asked, Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave little insight into the "process" planned to replace these confederate-era symbols and fill the empty stone pedestals throughout the city.

"The city will have to decide how to do that along with the private sector and hopefully everybody will participate this time," Landrieu said. "We'll announce a process to hopefully do something better there and of course when general lee comes down we'll have another process and iI think they're going to be much prettier and nicer than they are and they're going to reflect the true soul of the city."

It is the lack of a plan that now has some up in arms.

"Why they didn't start a year ago when they said we're going to take it down and say this is what we're going to replace, this is the people involved with replacing it. To just say we're going to get them down and then we're going to figure out what to do doesn't make much sense," Marsala said.

As for the statues themselves, the mayor said they are being held in a secure place. He said the city has been contacted by a number of entities interested in taking them.

Other's are interested in preserving other history connected to these monuments. Historians have told WDSU there were time capsules inside the monuments.

Pierre McGraw, with the Monumental Task Committee, said it has been well-documented that the committees that put up the monuments for Jefferson Davis and Beauregard did include time capsules.

The Beauregard was unveiled in 1915 and the Davis was installed in 1911. McGraw said the committees listed the items that were included in the capsules, things like letters and proclamations, coins, flags and pamphlets on fundraising an planning of the monuments.

McGraw said he is not sure if they were beneath the statues or included in the stone pedestals. He and other historians are hopeful if the city locates those capsules, that the items be turned a Civil War museum to preserve those pieces of history.

McGraw said he has not been able to locate any documents to indicate that there was a time capsule included with the General Lee monument, which was put in place in 1884.

A city spokesperson was looking into whether the crews that removed them have those capsules as well.